The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-17
NTEMpERATE SPEECHES AT THE TORONTO
MEETING REBUKED
Fears of a Riot When the Irish
Editor Speaks There.
French Canadians Taking up the Irish Cause
ORANGE Disturbances would Help the tans-
downe Tenantry The Government
Knows u.

NOktI nlucn uIIaNOIdDic toAhhicht
among the government supporters here
who hold tothe opinion that the Toronto
speakers went too far and have damaged
their own case The Montreal Gazette,
conservative and government organ, in
a leading editorial. this morning, ON the
Toronto demonstration says:
''It must be said that some of the
speakers at the anti-O' Brien meeting
at Toronto were more earnest than wise.
They fell into ways that they themselves.
in common with a tremendous majority
of the people in this country, condemn
in the agitator whose presence ON
the mission he has taken up
Canadians resent. Some things were
were said before the 10000 or u 1000 per-
sons gathered i'm Queens Park on Satur-
day. that will rankle in the minds of
other citizens who, while not endorsing
the policy that makes the dominion a hat
tlefield for Irish quarrels, sympathlze
with other phases of the movement with
which O'Brien is connected, and Will
feel that they have been needlessly hurt
by words that would not have been
called forth had wiser councils prevailed
and the cause of the present turmoil
stayed at home.
THUS there is danger ''ofa collision and
even though due care be taken by the
authorities to prevent violence tlere Is
almost sure to be certain amount of
trouble through people taking sides in
the quarrel that had been thrust upon
them. We sincerely hope that wherever
OBrien determines ON going he will he
left i'm peace and that those who cannot
Justify his mission will be kept away"
The following is an editorial in the
Montreal Herald whose politics are liber-
al. but which opposed O'Brien's invasion
almost as vigorously as the Gdzette
itself 1t is headed .Wanted-the Other
Side"
1T would not only he proper but it
seems absolutely necessary that the state
ments made by O'Brien in regard to the
treatment of the Luggacurran tenants
should be met and egatived If Is posi-
bic. Lord Iansdow ne does not appear
to have had knowledge of these transac-
tions Hisagent, of course, may be said
to represent him, but with hIs Lordship
on one side of the Atlantic and negotia-
tions proceeding on the other between
agent and representatives of tenants,
it might well be assumed that the negO-
tIations might go ON and and be disposed
of before Lord Lansdowne would he
infol med of the details. But for
the eviction of large bodies of
poor people from his estates Lord
Iansdowne is responsible and the why's
and wherefores of such action are as de-
batable in his case in any other case.
The fact that he is Governor General
of Canada supplies no reason for
silence. The question is agitating
the English speaking people of
Britain. Canada and the United States.
1T matters little how or by whom the
rious accusations have been made. If
they affected the Premier of Canada
they would have to be answered. They
ought all the more to be met and an
swered when directed against the Cover
nor General of Canada The question Is:
Are these things true:
WHAT o'BRIEN SAYS.
To-day everybody is talking of what is
likely to occur at Toronto when O'Brien
gets there. Speaking of the Orange
meeting O'Brien, full of gladness, said it
was the best thing that could have hap
pened. why" said he, with Lord
Lansdowne now it is a case of Save me
from my friends,' Haven't Orangemen
got him and his case into the same stew
that the bigoted little Tory. Charles f.
Lewis, got the Government into the
other day in relation to the charges of
the London Times which he insisted
should be summoned to the bar of the
House of Commons and who, to his as
tonishment and to the CONSERVATION of
the Government. who united in vetoing
the motion, found the proposed action
supported by the whole force of the Irish
party. Personally / am delighted ut
their most extragant utterances and per-
sonally am fearless. l predicted that
Prof Goodwin Smith would ut last find
his level which prediction is fulfilled, as
l see he was one of the most blatant
speakers at the orange meeting.
IF any differences existed among the
Nationalists of Toronto the publication
of Archbishop Croke's letter has swept
it away and caused them all to unite as
one man.
EXPECTING a RIOT.
The army of New York newspaper
men who are with O'Brien has been in-
creased by representatives from Chicago
papers and they are all SO thoroughly
prepared for riot in Toronto that they
will be disappointed if it should not come
off. The presence of Ernest DE Roster,
the leading French Canadian mt
Yesterdays meeting here in St. Patrick's
Hall and his stirring anti-Lans,lowne
speech, the promise of La Justice To sup
ply French aid to defend O'Brien, if nee
essary, and the general tenor of feeling
prove beyond question that any if Sc
rious attempt at disturbance takes place.
but especially if hair of O'Brien's head
be in iured, a blaze will be lighted from
one end of the Dominion to the other. in
comparison with which the Riel excite
ment was tame.
RIOT WOULD BENEFIT HIS CAUSE.
O'Brien says riot during this time
would give such tremendous lift to the
Irish cause generally, that he fears it
will not take place. Much as Orange
riots in Belfast served the cause of Home
Rule, mu ch more would Orange riots in
Toronto serve the cause of the Lans-
downe tenantry He is of the opinion
that Lord Lansdowne knows this and
Mayor Rowland too, and that both will
consequently work hard to preserve the
peace. But the best laid schemes are
dlsarranged when passions are aroused
ana passions are now aroused. OBrien
leaves Tor Toronto at ) o'clock tonight.